View report page

161
said House, the 23 Blocks, 26 Beetles & other tools & implements,
and upon the departure of said Betts he to pay the said Governors
£50 or stock of Hemp to that amount. Also that he is to cary out
the Rules & Orders as signed by H.M. Justices dated 14 Jany last.
In consideration whereof the said Governors agree to pay the said
Betts £4 per annum. For Blind or lame persons the said Betts to
be paid 6d. each weekly. Every Prisoner on leaving the house to
pay (if able) 4d. Any sick person, or those unable to work are
either to be discharged or Betts to have reasonable Payment for
diett, &c. Finally Betts to reside within the said house, on the
north side with 6 rooms, 2 outward doors, a garden plot, store
house, and 2 "large roomes for his prisoners & ffolkes to worke in
and roomes for his Prisoners lodgings."
Sig : by RICHARD BETTS.
Witn : by JOHN PLUKENETT (Ser),
& GEORGE PLUKENETT (his appe).
The first registered call upon the parochial funds for repairs
is twenty-six years after the opening of the prison:—
9th June, 1648.—Ordered that the Churchwardens for the tyme
being shall repayre the house of Correction in Tuthill ffeilds
with needfull and necessary reparacon.
After forty years' operation of the system of payment
indicated by the above agreement, an appeal is made to the
Vestry as the controlling authority on the subject of the
keeper's salary:—
28th Aprill, 1663.—Ordered upon ye desire of Mr. Taunton who
hath this day moved so that something may be allowed him by
way of sallary for his care in looking to Brydewell that ye
Churchwardens doe consider and agree to ye settlement of Two
Thirds parts of Tenn pounds per annum being ye proporcon of
this parish, ye other Third to be paid by ye parishes of St.
Clement Danes and St. Martin in ye Fields as formerly and that
ye comencemt of such sallary bee from Lady Day last accordingly.
Early in Queen Anne's reign the Bridewell became a
common gaol for criminals. The Gate House prison was
removed, as already stated, in 1776, in consequence of which
the Bridewell was enlarged in 1778.
A more systematic and direct control began to be exercised
by the justices as the prison became used for criminals, and
the Vestry complained of the undue proportion of the
common charge levied upon them;—
12 Oct., 1711. Ordd That the Churchwardens pay to Wm. Elderton
in Order to pay to Richard Rider Esq Trear appointed by the
M